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Question
State whether the following rational number will have a terminating decimal expansion or a non-terminating repeating decimal expansion:
`15/1600`
Solution
`15/1600 =3/320`
= `3/(2^6xx5)`
Since the denominator has only 2 and 5 as its factors it is a terminating decimal.
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